sn42.13:3.1 What do you think, chief?
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sn42.13:3.2 Do you know the Koliyan officers with drooping headdresses?”
sn42.13:3.3 “I know them, sir.”
sn42.13:3.4 “And what’s their job?”
sn42.13:3.5 “To put a stop to bandits and to deliver messages for the Koliyans.”
sn42.13:3.6 “What do you think, chief?
sn42.13:3.7 Are the Koliyan officers with drooping headdresses moral or immoral?”
sn42.13:3.8 “I know that they’re immoral, of bad character, sir. They are among those in the world who are immoral and of bad character.”
sn42.13:3.9 “Would it be right to say that
sn42.13:3.10 Pāṭaliya knows the Kolyian officers with drooping headdresses who are immoral, of bad character, so he too must be immoral and of bad character?”
sn42.13:3.11 “No, sir.
sn42.13:3.12 I’m quite different from the Koliyan officers with drooping headdresses; we have quite different characters.”
sn42.13:3.13 “So if you can know those officers of bad character while you are not of bad character, why can’t the Realized One know deceit, without being deceitful?
sn42.13:3.14 I understand deceit and its result. And I understand how the deceitful practice so that when their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.